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  • Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.

    Memories   Two   Perfect  
    Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”
  • Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

  • Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

  • Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  • A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.

  • He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

  • Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan
  • On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

    A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University
  • Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

  • The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

  • The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

    Life   Work   Soldier  
    Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press
  • That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

    Love   Self Esteem   Hate  
    "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
  • Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

  • How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

    Happiness   Angel   Joy  
  • One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

  • Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  • Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press
  • In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

    Humble   House   Library  
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.34, Courier Corporation
  • Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

  • Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  • In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

  • Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

    Buddhist   Clever   Men  
  • The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

    Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.42, Ellen Key
  • This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

    Children   Cancer   Sleep  
  • I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

  • All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

    Peace   War   Independent  
    John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191
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